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Opposing parents wanted Leonard Fournette banned at 12 years old

ByJohn Buhler|
Sep 19, 2015; Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Auburn Tigers defensive back Trey Matthews (28) jumps over Louisiana State Tigers running back Leonard Fournette (7) to try to get the ball loose in the second half at Tiger Stadium. Fournette kept running to score his second touchdown of the game. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 19, 2015; Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Auburn Tigers defensive back Trey Matthews (28) jumps over Louisiana State Tigers running back Leonard Fournette (7) to try to get the ball loose in the second half at Tiger Stadium. Fournette kept running to score his second touchdown of the game. Mandatory Credit: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports

Leonard Fournette was apparently so good at football when he was a 12-year-old in New Orleans that parents on the opposing teams tried to ban him from playing

The legend of Leonard Fournette, the Heisman Trophy contending running back for the LSU Tigers, was forming long before his breakout game against the Auburn Tigers. As a middle schooler in New Orleans, he simply dominated feeder teams so badly that opposing parents tried to form a petition to ban him from competing in middle school.

According to his uncle Corey Scott, “He was bigger than everyone. He basically just destroyed ‘park ball’. He was running all over the kids.”

When Leonard Fournette was a seventh-grader, his high school team played against Tyrann Mathieu’s, the a senior committed to LSU, and steamrolled the future Consensus All-American for the Tigers. Mathieu now stars in the lethal secondary of the Arizona Cardinals with another former LSU stud, CB Patrick Peterson.

Whether he was trucking adolescents in park ball or plowing over guys that went on to star for the Tigers, Leonard Fournette’s reputation as generational type of tailback emanated from the Crescent City. Fournette was the number one high school prospect of the 2014 High School graduating class.

Through the first three weeks of the 2015 College Football Season, Fournette has 47 carries for 387 yards and 6 touchdowns in two games. Leonard Fournette eviscerated the run defenses of both SEC West rivals in Mississippi State and Auburn in consecutive weeks. Now imagine what his 2015 stats would look like had the Bayou Bengals not had their home opener against McNeese State cancelled.

Fournette enters Week 4 of the college football season as one of the main contenders for the Heisman Trophy with the Georgia Bulldogs running back Nick Chubb and the TCU Horned Frogs quarterback Trevone Boykin.

Will the legend of Leonard Fournette have its next chapter written from the Carrier Dome against Syracuse on Saturday? Look for LSU to continue to pound the rock with their All-American tailback for the rest of 2015 as the Tigers vie for a chance to make the second Annual College Football Playoff in January.

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